Version #4 by MScratch from Sep 28, 2014 at 05:44AM EDT


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  • _[Major rewrite coming though]_
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  • h2. About
  • Hide the pain Harold, also known as "Harold" is a old man that became famous by his stock photos and faces that indicate a certain amount of pain and/or uncomfortableness.
  • <b>Hide The Pain Harold</b>, and sometimes just <b>"Harold"</b>, is the name given to an old man in stock photos, whose face indicates a certain amount of pain and/or uncomfortableness. The photos had spawned many photoshop edits.
  • h2. Origin
  • He is being used mostly for the purpose of photoshoping his face and making memes, he originated being used in 2011 intended as being photoshoped in a forum know as facepunch (http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864) And some users made good editing and photoshop, unfortunately soon the thread became forgotten and lost.
  • The earliest known archived thread where the first edits had appeared can be found on Facepunch, dating back to 2011. On September 13th, a user Greenen72, posted stock photos[1], originally from the site DreamsTime due to having the site's watermark on them.
  • h2. Spread
  • However he began to shine again when a memecenter user in 2012 called craftypasta began to use his face as a caption meme and being used mostly for sex/rape jokes, he began to spread out the site to hugelol, redit and more sites when finally turned a religion in memecenter and hugelol.
  • %{color:gray}However he began to shine again when a memecenter user in 2012 called craftypasta began to use his face as a caption meme and being used mostly for sex/rape jokes, he began to spread out the site to hugelol, redit and more sites when finally turned a religion in memecenter and hugelol.
  • http://www.memecenter.com/craftypasta
  • http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864
  • http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864%
  • h2. External References
  • fn1. Facepunch - "original post":http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864

Origin

  • http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1124864
  • Facepunch